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THE former Teesmouth Lifeboat Station was founded in 1911 as a response by the RNLI to the large number of shipwrecks and associated loss of life in the Tees Bay and North Gare areas.
A station needed to be established that was not restricted in either launching or recovery and, by siting a station at the entrance to the Tees, this criteria was fulfilled.
The first lifeboat to be placed at Teesmouth was the "Bradford" No 2, although lifeboats had been stationed at the mouth of the River Tees since 1829 when the RNLI was founded.
Initially the boat was moored afloat until a boathouse and slipway were built in 1914.
The station was located at the very mouth of the River...